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Patented May'Sl, 1898.

Witnefsses UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

CHARLES A. CHIDSEY, OFV PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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`SIIE(.IILEICLATIOBT,forming part of Letters Patent N o. 604,877, dated May 31, 1898.

Application filed October 29, 1897. Serial No.`656,770. [No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. CHIDsEY, a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements .in Cus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention'relates to ends, and has for its object to provide a cuff that can be starched and then, without injury or disflguration, be

j. I folded dat without injury for storage or transf portation, and which also can be more easily held in suitable situation on the wrist for the application of fasteners,and whichwill closely embrace the wrist without unduly interfering with its movements, and which will avoid breaking of the cuffs in use.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawing the figure is a plan of an improved cu.

Numeral l denotes a section of the cuff-body, and 2 indicates holes for buttons or cud-fasteners.

3 denotes a band, and 4 a buttonhole to receive a buttonflxed on a shirt-sleeve.

5 indicates holes in the band to receive the button for fastening the ends of the band together.

The cuff may be out away at 6, adjacent the ends of the band, to facilitate the manipulation of the band in buttoning its ends together.

7 denotesa cut in the body of the cuff, preferably of the form represented. This cut dividesv the body of the cuff into sections and provides that when it is placed upon the wristand fastened, vand particularly if a link fastener be used, the cuffwill'closely embrace the wrist on two sides, but allows freedom of movement of the wrist toward the ends of the cuff-sections, as when link-fasteners are employed. A 1

One of theadvantages of the improved cuff is that though'laundered and stiff with starch it can be folded dat along a central transverse lineof the band without detriment and without injury to its appearance. Travelers 0r others can fold a quantity of cuffs and pack them Ain small compass in suitable boxes or elsewhere, which in many cases will be found more convenient than rolling the cuffs and storing 'and handling them in that form. A roll of cuffs in a cylindrical receptacle occupies more room, and the manipulation of a roll of cuffs in removing them from the box at intervals involves the danger of soiling them and the trouble of maintaining the roll in compact form, since the rolled cuff is elastic and expansive. This elasticity also interferes to some extent with fastening the ends of the c uff by links or other fasteners,and that objectionv is also largely obviated bythe new construction. The new cuff can be packed flat in approximately square boxes,which occupy a minimum of space.

Further, a more important advantage is that the improved cuff can be used without the breaking along the line of liexure, such as occurs in ordinary cuffs secured by links holding the ends of the bent cuff parallel with the same cuff side in contiguity.

Having described my invention, I claim- The cuff herein described comprising a band provided with means whereby its free ends may be secured together and acu-body divided into separate sections near 'its midlength, each section being separately attached to the band and having both ends provided with a buttonhole whereby the said sections may be secured by links, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed thisv CHARLES A. oHIDsEY:

Witnesses:

FRANCIS P. MALONE,

WM. J. LITTEL. 

